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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Thu Oct 16, 2014, 10:14 PM Oct 2014

Edward Snowden Suggests You Use Silent Circle

Bill Flook
Staff Reporter- Washington Business Journal

Silent Circle has landed the most relevant of all possible celebrity endorsements for its text encryption service: Edward Snowden.

The NSA leaker, speaking by live video feed to the New Yorker, rattled off a short list of more secure alternatives to standard-issue iPhone texting. His suggestions: RedPhone (or any other service from security researcher Moxie MarlinSpike and Open WhisperSystems) and Silent Circle, which offers voice, text and data encryption as well as its own privacy-centric handset, the Blackphone.

"These are typically free programs that are better than what comes standard on your phone, and they're safer," said Snowden. (Silent Circle isn't free.)

We profiled Silent Circle in July, focusing on how the NSA's surveillance scandal and resulting privacy furor have benefited the startup. The company is based in Geneva — part of its branding as a neutral party — and maintains its U.S. headquarters at National Harbor.

Snowden, actually, had a far more ringing endorsement for Silent Circle than Silent Circle had for Snowden.

CEO Mike Janke, in our profile, said Snowden was "not a hero in my book.” He did, however, say that "it’s important that the information [released by Snowden] came out. I believe what he did was extremely important. And I also know that he couldn’t have gone to his superiors, that this wouldn’t have seen the light of day."

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Edward Snowden Suggests You Use Silent Circle (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2014 OP

Well, he is a hero in my book... MrMickeysMom Oct 2014 #1

I'm baffled by Janke daredtowork Oct 2014 #2

Janke and logic must be strangers. BillZBubb Oct 2014 #3

Too bad that Janke can't pay Snowden for his endorsement. Major Hogwash Oct 2014 #4

Sure wish he'd leaked things about his original employer, the CIA Recursion Oct 2014 #5

Great comment, btw... MrMickeysMom Oct 2014 #10

Good post. woo me with science Oct 2014 #7

So he's now a celebrity endorser... Blue_Tires Oct 2014 #6

May more whistleblowers follow. woo me with science Oct 2014 #8

Cue the smear machine. woo me with science Oct 2014 #9

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)

1. Well, he is a hero in my book...

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 10:23 PM

Oct 2014

I also don't know diddily about anything like Silent Circle, but I get it. Why would I want to continue to open up my every move with phone, text and internet to the fucking NSA when I might have an alternative?

The NSA works like the CIA. Neither one should even exist in their present form. My life does not belong to them or anyone else who decides that I'm guilty until proven innocent.

This country needs to start being good enough for it's people and vise versa to all those people who continue to slumber in willful ignorance.

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)

2. I'm baffled by Janke

Reply to MrMickeysMom (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 10:40 PM

Oct 2014

If it was important the information come out and Snowden's superiors would have buried it, then what does Janke propose Snowden should have done?

Snowden got the information out and took the hail of B.S. that society always puts people through for doing the right thing but having to swim through sharks to do it.

Snowden IS a hero in my book because he is one of the few whistleblowers/leakers to ever survive this soul destroying, life-ruining gauntlet with his dignity intact. He didn't let all the lies and smear attempts get him down. He kept maintaining that what he was doing was important. Until his supposed "libertarian" beliefs start being articulated in ways that contradict my political and social values, Snowden for President, as far as I'm concerned.

And Janke is a hypocrite.

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

3. Janke and logic must be strangers.

Reply to daredtowork (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 10:54 PM

Oct 2014

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)

4. Too bad that Janke can't pay Snowden for his endorsement.

Reply to BillZBubb (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 10:59 PM

Oct 2014

But, traitors don't make good salesman to pitch products!!

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

5. Sure wish he'd leaked things about his original employer, the CIA

Reply to daredtowork (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:01 PM

Oct 2014

Rather than just their chief competitor, the NSA...

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)

10. Great comment, btw...

Reply to daredtowork (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 17, 2014, 11:06 PM

Oct 2014

It IS hard taking lies and smear attempts, I can attest. You do what is right in life… But, look at how many people pile on when the hero must be taken down.

When thinking of what people with integrity do, it reminds me of some of the explanations given by Joseph Campbell about the hero's journey.

My hope is for the hypocrites to be called out by people who decide to finally think for themselves.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

7. Good post.

Reply to MrMickeysMom (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:21 PM

Oct 2014

It is incomprehensible, unconscionable, unacceptable that we are spied on by our own government in the United States of America.

We are ruled by corporate-purchased criminals who are systematically dismantling the very foundations of this democratic nation.

It's well past time for a nationwide awakening.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

6. So he's now a celebrity endorser...

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:18 PM

Oct 2014

wonderful...

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

8. May more whistleblowers follow.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:23 PM

Oct 2014

Courage is contagious.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

9. Cue the smear machine.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Thu Oct 16, 2014, 11:36 PM

Oct 2014

The relentlessness of the smear campaign against the whistleblower is directly proportional to the gravity of the crimes being committed by our government against its own people, that the whistleblower revealed.

The REAL reason a very loud few are posting hostility toward Glenn Greenwald (and Edward Snowden) at DU (256 recs)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025036592

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